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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Eric 01:13 Yeah, you got to jump in. Take it over.

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

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You can donate tax deductible donations to GeriPal so we can continue to produce t hese podcasts in 2025. But I do think that there’s a tension here, which is that in order for these algorithms to work, you need to feed them a ton of data. And then you think, well, what kind of data are you feeding it?

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